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2 Samuel 21

21 Now in the days of David there was a famine three years, year after year. And when David sought the face of Jehovah, Jehovah said, Upon Saul and upon , because he put to death the Gibeonites, 2 (now the Gibeonites were not of the Israelites, but of the remnant of the Amorites; nevertheless the Israelites had sworn to them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the Israelites and the Judahites), 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, ‘What shall I do for you? And wherewith shall I make the expiation, that you may bless the heritage of Jehovah?’ 4 And the Gibeonites said to him, ‘It is not a matter of silver and gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.’ And he said, ‘What do you say that I shall do for you?’ 5 And they said to the king, ‘The man who consumed us, and who planned that we should not remain in any of the borders of Israel-- 6 let seven men of his sons be given to us, and we will hang them up to Jehovah in .’ And the king said ‘I will give them.’

7 But the king spared , the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of Jehovah’s oath which was between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 8 So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Meribaal, and the five sons of the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 9 And he delivered them over the Gibeonites, and they hung them in the mountain before Jehovah, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of .

10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of the barley harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she did not permit the birds of the heavens to settle down upon them by day nor the wild beasts by night. 11 And when it was reported to David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, 12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh in Gilead, who had stolen them from the citizens of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa. 13 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 14 And thy burried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son in the territory of Benjamin in Zela in the sepulchre of Kish his father, and they did all that the king commanded. And after this God was propitiated toward the land.

15 Now when the Philistines were again at war with Israel, David went down together with his servants and fought against the Philistines. 16 {This verse will need special attention.} Then there arose Dodo, who was one of the descendants of the giants, the weight of whose bronze spear was about twelve pounds of brass, being girded with the sword, and thought to slay David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him and smote and killed the Philistine. Then the men of David swore, saying, ‘You shall go out no more with us to battle, that you may not quench the lamp of Israel.’

18 Now when after this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.

19 {This verse will need special attention.} And when there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan the son of Jair the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 20 And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of gigantic stature, who had on each hand six fingers and on each foot six toes; and he also was descended from the giants. 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, slew him. 22 These four were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.start jps1917

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